Subject: Monetary policy (Keywords)

From the bestselling author of 'The Pity of War', this volume argues that modern history is the product of unpredictable political conflicts, and that it is their impact on volatile financial markets that can make or break an empire.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies - money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains difficult to articulate its democratic possibilities and limits. 'The...

Designed to bring Europe closer together, the Euro has actually done the opposite: after nearly a decade without growth, unity has been replaced with dissent and enlargements with prospective exits. Joseph Stiglitz argues that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the funda...

'Euro Crash' diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between France and Germany founded on strict monetarist principle and without a European Ce...

2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson reflect on the causes of the crisis, why it was so damaging and what it ultimately took to prevent a second Great...

In this work, the author provides a jargon-free exploration of the current economic crisis, offering a powerful argument for how economics must change to get us out of it. Farmer traces the swings between classical and Keynesian economics since the early 20th century, explaining the elements of b...

This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last 50 years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'.

An accessible guide to economics aimed at anyone who is curious about the news but is often left confused by financial journalism.

An accessible guide to economics aimed at anyone who is curious about the news but is often left confused by financial journalism.

Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interests? Money is never a neutral medium of exchange. Nor are bankers simply go-betweens for savers and borrowers. In this accessible book, leading political econo...